Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

J. B. PARRAR.

` BOOT OR SHOE. 120.267,74.. Patented Nov. 21, 1882.

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BOOT OR SHOE..

SPECIFICATION forming `part of Letters Patent No. 267,745, dated November 21, 1882.

pplicationlledMayQ,1882. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern Be .it known that I, JOHN B. FARRAR, ot' Bradford, county ot' Essex, State ot' Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boots 'and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying draw ings, is a speclcation.

In the manufacture of a boot or shoe in accordance with my invention I take a piece of sole-leather ot' snlicient thickness to forni the inner and covering soles, and instead ot' channeling the same for the reception of stitches, as has been done, I split the said sole from end to end, forming two soles, one of which is a counterpart ot' theother,and one ot' which serves as the inner sole to receivethe stitches, While the other serves as the covering-sole. This covering-sole is applied to the inner sole after the same has been united with the weltsole, and after the stitching ot' the outer sole, by means of suitable paste or cement, preferably made Watrr-proot', and then the soles` with the covering-sole in place, are beat out in any usual Way, thus leaving for contact With the stocking the grain side of the coveringsole split off from the inner sole;

Figure l represents in side elevation a shoe embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a partial section thereof across the ball ofthe shoe; Fig. 3, a partial section acrossthe shank; andFig. et, the piece of soleleather from which are made the inner and covering soles, the said piece of leather being shown as partially split to form united by stitches f, extending through and through thein. The outer sole, g, properly channeled, is then applied and stitched to the Welt-sole outside the upper by the stitches h, and to the upper and inner sole at the shank ot' the shoe by the stitches m. The channelliap of the outer sole hides the stitches h m outside ot" the shoe. Having provided the covering-sole b with suitable cement or paste, preferably water-proof, the said sole is placed in the shoe to cover the inner sole, and the shoe and soles are then subjected to the beating-out operation, which molds the coveringsole to the inner sole and covers the stitches h m, leaving the smooth grnin'face of the soleleather covering-sole exposed to View in the shoe and to receive against it the stocking.

I do not broadly claim an inner sole channeled about its edge to receive stitches, the iiap ofthe channel being thereafter turned down to cover the stitches.

That improvement in the manntacture of boots and shoes which consists in splitting a piece of sole-leather to remove entirely from it its grain-face, thus forming an inner sole and a grain-faced covering or lining sole, then uniting the inner sole with the upper and the outer sole, and reapplying upon the face of the inner sole the said grainfaced covering-sole, cementing the same to the inner solle to cover the stitches or tastenings therein, leaving the grain-lace of' the said coveringsole uppermost, all as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN B. FARRAR. 

